I really enjoyed the number of guys on my facebook feed who shared this yesterday with the “look, look, we <i>have</i> to do this, it’s <i>scientific</i>“. followed by a long mansplanation about how when they’re just *forced* to sit with their legs together it causes back strain, among other things.

rare indeed. looking back myself, I’ve had similar experiences as well, where my “lawyer brain” would say of course it’s “not-rape”, because...xyz. But...I certainly wasn’t an enthusiastic participant in the process at the time. Which is different than “regretting it afterwards”, for anyone who is confused.

I will note - in the show itself, the “American Reich” flag had an actual swastika in the blue field (rather than the Iron Cross). So someone had at least *some* minimal amount of common sense about this. No idea whether that was the advertisers or the MTA overlords who vet the ads, but someone drew the line at actual…

um...not gender switched, but...Hamilton?

I can imagine a standard homeowners insurance policy also refusing to cover something like this (just like standard auto insurance has been refusing to cover uber drivers), because it’s not intended or designed to cover commercial enterprises. If you want to run a business, you need commercial-level insurance…

Ugh. the goddamn smartphone fallacy. First of all, poverty is not a static existence. People may have jobs, be able to afford things, and then lose their jobs. They still retain things from their prior life.

ugh. my company has an office in Atlanta. or “Atlanta”. It drives me crazy every time I have to go down there, because it’s such a freaking ordeal to get anywhere (we have to factor in 2 hours of travel time to get from the office to the airport). And everyone I work with down there explicitly acknowledges that it’s…

really, you’re “Sure” about that? I’m not poor, I own my apartment, and I haven’t had a working stove in eight months, because we can’t get f*cking Con Ed to schedule an inspection to turn my gas back on after a freakout earlier this year where they shut off the gas to a bunch of apartments in my building. I…

I know people talk about having no screens, but I actually find it much easier to fall asleep with the TV on as background noise, than with nothing but the “stress voices” in my head. The TV noise is a distracting almost white noise that focuses my thoughts and gets me out of my own head. But I have a strict list of…

Sometimes I keep my giant over-the-ear headphones on, even without anything playing (because it can be distracting if I’m actually reading) to emphasize my “I want to be alone-ness”. It works about 20% of the time. But they’re also really useful because I can make a giant exaggerated show of annoyance when I…

Oh, agreed on the general principle - just the specifics of my favorite blowoff really only make sense if you never actually spoken to the person before. Prior interactions/conversations of a friendly (even falsely friendly) nature would make this somewhat confusing. Perhaps “I’m sorry, you seem to have confused my…

It may be too late for this, given that there are prior interactions, but my favorite response for complete strangers who “strike up” conversations with me in semi public places (restaurants, public transit, etc.) while I clearly want to be left alone (reading a book, wearing giant headphones, sometimes…

Not disabled either, but did have a parent in a wheelchair for a period of time, and I think this is basically right. Be conscientious, polite, and helpful, but NOT overbearing. ask ONCE, and if someone turns you down and says they’ve got it handled, BELIEVE THEM, even if they continue to look like they’re struggling…

Hue tights are literally the reason I started wearing skirts again. I didn’t wear skirts for years (decades) until I discovered them. I have literally thrown out most of my pants and now wear skirts 95% of the time. I am an oddly proportioned plus-sized misfit (5’4”, 27” inseam, bottom always 2 sizes larger than my…

Hue tights are literally the reason I started wearing skirts again. I didn’t wear skirts for years (decades) until I…

well, if they had gone within a mile of a lawyer, they might have done a trademark search to learn that they were trampling all over a company name that someone was already using. That is now getting tons of harassing twitter spam themselves, even though they have nothing to do with this abomination. so my guess…

Even setting aside all of the other genuine concerns listed here, I don’t have unlimited text messaging! I know I may be in the dark ages, grandfathered in to my old $5/200 message plan, because I RARELY TEXT, but they seriously think they’re going to send unsolicited text messages to people who haven’t subscribed to…

I’ve become partial to Sanuks. They’re made out of yoga mats and I use them instead of flip flops because they stay on my feet much more sturdily. They’re not super supportive, so if you’re looking to walk for 20 miles, I’d find something with more arch support, but as a flip flop “plus”, they’re great.